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Chengdu Airlines now hoping to launch ARJ21 operations in late 2014

Chengdu Airlines (EU, Chengdu) says it hopes to take delivery and commence operations with its first ARJ21-700s at the end of 2014. A subsidiary of Sichuan Airlines (3U, Chengdu), Chengdu has thirty of the twinjets on order from Comac (Shanghai Pudong) and is the type's launch customer. Chengdu Airlines was due to receive its first aircraft by the end of 2011, but persistent delays in the certification process have resulted in that date being postponed more than twice.

The aircraft - China's first independently developed twin-engine regional airliner - is the first of thirty on order from launch customer Chengdu Airlines (EU, Chengdu) and is expected to be delivered in early 2015.

COMAC intends to complete all outstanding ground tests and flight tests in order to secure the ...

Chengdu Airlines (EU, Chengdu) will become the first Sichuan-based airline to reinvent itself as a Low Cost Carrier China's WCARN news portal has reported. Following months of study and review, the airline's Board of Directors gave the plan the go-ahead earlier this week.

"Chengdu Airlines has considered transforming into a low-cost carrier for a long time," said the airline.